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Books and Bikinis Reading Challenge - read 10 books about mermaids, the sea, the beach...by the end of the summer! hopefully soon!
(7 out of 10 read)

Please be patient with the fewer and far-between posts....we have a new 'half' born in April and things are slow as we adjust and try desperately for more sleep. (It's a girl!)

Friday, January 8, 2010

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, by Barbara Cohen

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, by Barbara Cohen
Young Adult, 1982

From back of the book:
Buran cannot - will not - sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determine to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.
Trackgeek: A little bit dis-jointed by the change in the perspective of the story (between two people's experiences), but considering the story it makes sense to tell both sides. I enjoyed that this is an elaboration of an ancient story that I am not familiar with.
Graded a B+.

1 comments:

Angela said...

That sounds cool. At first I figured it was a variation of the dancing princesses but obviously I was wrong. I'll pick this up at the library this week.